Beveridge retreaded
Last week in Prague, at a meeting organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, experts from the World Bank and the London c states to policy makers from 15 central and eastern...
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Access, equity and diversity
Stringent fiscal retrenchment allied with expanded numbers of students have directed unprecedented attention to quality issues in higher education. Without doubt the single most important determinant...
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Research adds spice to university menu
Two weeks ago (THES, October 14), we had a vice chancellor of a new university telling us that universities were about teaching and learning. Full stop. Last week, a pro vice chancellor asserts that...
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Living language, breathing culture
Robert Jeffcoate's article (Back-to-grammar-school, THES, September 30) is an extremely unhelpful contribution to the ongoing debate about the teaching of English. Most of it is a very tedious list...
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Church colleges baiting a `sectarian ideology' trap
Gordon McGregor's article on church colleges' bid to become universities (THES, October 14) is, one hopes, the nadir of recent "developments" in higher education. His answer to the question of what...
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Astronomical figures
It costs the United Kingdom about Pounds 90 million a year to belong to the European Space Agency and to Cern, the European particle physics laboratory. The exact cost is uncertain because it depends...
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A bogus thing of scraps and smears
Last Friday morning, a Business and Technology Education Council quality audit team called on a further education college -- a normal institution in which thousands of students follow courses and...
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Benign dictators need academics
I have read John Rear's well-crafted apology for the new university managements (THES, October 21). It is a fine piece of rhetoric. I also attended Friday's meeting of the Council for Academic...
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Benign dictators need academics
Thank you for your leader "University Democracy" (THES, October 21), referring to the colloquium held that day by the Council for Academic Autonomy. The purpose of the council is to ensure that there...
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Whither National Audit Office neutrality?
Recent events at the University of Huddersfield prompt questions about the independence of the National Audit Office, which earlier this week presented its interim report on the Huddersfield affair...
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We are not amused
Your article "Lecturers' hours deal for Natfhe" (THES, October 14) describes Roger Ward, Colleges Employers Forum's chief executive, as "very amused" by this college's collective agreement on...
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An Orwellian misrepresentation
My collection of essays and journalism, Frustrate Their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics, seems to have upset the Tory ex-MP Sir Robert Rhodes James badly (THES, October 15...
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Intellectual maps are a cul-de-sac
Pamela King and Angela Barrs write (THES, October 14) that "An undergraduate course ought to inculcate a habit of independent critical reading". I could not agree more, but my heart sank on reading...
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Prospect of fool's gold
This year the 16th congress of the International Political Science Association was held in Berlin. The congresses take place every three years with about 2,000 participants from every part of the...
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Painting by numbers?
Controversy over the existence of a canon of great works has long divided the world of literature, yet a similar if less public dispute bisects the world of art. In an attempt to open up this debate...